Paper and Product Packaging Industry

Next time you reach for that pill to help lower your blood pressure or to keep your arteries unclogged, you might have a Lehigh Valley company to thank — not for the drug itself, but for getting it to you.

Over the past year, two drug packaging companies opened their doors in the Lehigh Valley, building on the region's small but important pharmaceuticals industry.

Daiichi Sankyo, a Japanese firm with U.S. headquarters in Parsippany, N.J., in 2011 bought a former printing and packaging facility less than a mile from Route 33 in Bethlehem Township and received approval to begin distributing packaged pharmaceuticals last year. Quality Packaging Specialists International...

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